In 1804, Abigail Adams attacked Thomas Jefferson in an angry letter unlike any he had ever received. No one else ever addressed...
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
In the aftermath of the American Revolution, trade was a wild and woolly matter. The British harassed and seized American ships and...
Tobias Lear meticulously recorded the details of George Washington’s death, but was strangely silent about the events leading to his own. As...
Around 11 am on March 22, 1621, a fine warm day, two Wampanoag Indians appeared in the village of Plymouth with a...
Caleb Cushing famously brought a weathervane shaped like an arrow as a gift to the American consul in China in 1844. Cushing,...